Thanks, thackney.
OK, now we have several targets!
Yup, and that’s kinda how I see a war with them going ... kind of a 21st century seige by both sides on each others economies.
We would seize Kharg Island, blockade their import and export of fuel products, and hit their refineries. We would put them in a real bind real quick ... then we would systematically take down their nuclear infrastructure.
Iran will try their own version, hitting regional oil facilites in Iraq and the moderate Arab states as well as threaten shipping via the Straits of Hormuz. They’ll try to drive oil through the room and create an economic crisis in the West. All the while unleashing proxies in Iraq and elsewhere.
Our attacks will have the quickest impact but Iran is not an open government and can crush dissent.
Here the impact will be painful, but not as quickly, but public outcry and political opposition in our system of government can have much more of a policy impact.
Basically, we’d see who cries uncle first.